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This lecture gives you an overview of the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). It identifies which records of each branch of the federal government NARA holds, provides examples, and tells you where those records are housed, differentiating between central office records held in the Washington, D.C. area and those held by NARA’s regional archives facilities. It points to descriptions of NARA holdings, emphasizing those you can access online to guide your research. It suggests research strategies and effective ways to use NARA’s website. The speaker will also discuss some recently digitized records that family historians ...

SAN DIEGO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY GERMAN INTEREST GROUP AND THE SGGS PRESENT THE PREMIER OF DON HEINRICH TOLZMANN’S PRESENTATION ON “THE GERMAN 48ERS IN AMERICA: CHARACTERISTICS AND CONTRIBUTIONS!’   March 2023 marks the 175th anniversary of the 1848 Revolution in Europe. It began in France and spread throughout the states of the German Confederation and Austria, lasting until 1849. After its failure, thousands of Forty-Eighters, as refugees of the revolution were called, fled and immigrated to the U.S. Who they were and what their contributions were to American society in general, and to the German element in particular will be discussed, preceded ...

When information passed on from researcher to researcher doesn't "addup," it's time to tear down the walls and rebuild anew. This methodology lecture shows how erroneous conclusions can sneak into our research uncontested. This lecture is pertinent especially today with so many online family trees that get cut and pasted into our own research.   Dr. Michael D. Lacopo is a retired small-animal veterinarian born and raised in northern Indiana. He takes a scientific approach to his research as he does to his profession. Researching since 1980, he has lectured internationally and written for numerous periodicals and journals.  A self-described ...